Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-07
BRIEF NOTES.

Ex-police officer George Harvey has been
quite i'll for several days.
E. c. Robinson, of Oakland, has been
appointed Notary Public.
The newlv-elected officers of Schiller
Lodge No. 105, l. 0. o. F., were installed
last evening.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature Yesterday was $50 and 400,
with light variable winds and clear, fine
weather prevailing.
James Gildea and Billy Davidson, two
'old-timers," who have been seriously i'll
for several days, were yesterday sent by
Chief Dillman to the County Hospital.
These arrests were made yesterday
Frank Lee, by officer wager, for being
drunk; Ed. Rand, by officer Rider, for be-
ing a common drunkard; VIM. Lamb, by
officer Agner, for petit larceny.
The case of Oscar Blodgett, charged with
petit larceny in stealing turkeys, was yes
terday, in Justice Posts Court. continued
until next Thursday, owing to the severe
illness of the defendants wife.
The case of All Jim, charged with burg
larry in entering a barn, near Florin, and
stealing some harness, was examined in
Justice Deyine's Court yesterday, and re-
suited III Inc ueIenudllI uelu " dill
swer before the Superior Court.
The only business before the Superior
Court yesterday was in Department One,
Judge Armstrong presiding for the first
time since his appointment 1t was the
case of Ida Witt VS.. Otto Witt, which was
partly tried and then continued until l p. NJ.
to-day.
Kossuth Smith, an old resident of the
city, who many years ago almost entirely
became blind, and in consequence event
ually was known to almost everyone in the
city as blind Smith, died on Wednesday
after confinement to his bed of but few
days, though he had been in poor health
for some time.
The city water was so astonishingly
muddy yesterday that citizens could not
understand it, and they were equally puz-
zled to know why in some localities there
was so little pressure. The trouble was that
the water authorities were blowing out the
mains, freeing them from the mud de-
posted in them
The Hibernia Benevolent Society of this
city, having by vote of two-thirds of its
members decided to disincorporate, petit
ton for an order allowing the disincorpora-
ton was yesterday filed in the Superior
Court. The society's assets aggregate about
$4,000, which it is proposed to divide
among Is members.
The Virginia Chronicle says: Albert
Gallatin, of Sacramento, has recently pur-
chased the land on the shore of Eagle Lake
for twenty miles. He is on the west side
of the lake. He will use his Red Bluff
ranch for a winter range and the Eagle
Lake property for summer range. He
will not move his mules and horses
At the inquest held in San Francisco last
Wednesday upon the body of Major Robert
Beck. which was found floating in the Bay,
the evidence indicated that he became de-
ranged from severe neuralgia pains, and
going down to the Sonoma boat with the
intention of taking passage, fell overheard
from the boat or wharf. The verdict of the
jury was accidental drowning while suffer-
ing from alteration of mind.
R. P. Wingate, an old Sacramentan, who
has for some time been employed as one of
the guards at the San Quentin Prison, has
been brought to Sacramento with the hope
that change of air and scene may do him
good, as he recently became insane. He is
not violent, but it is deemed best to keep
him at the county jail, where he can have
plenty of exercise in the yard. Physicians
have hope that his mental disorder is only
temporary.
Catfish, club, etc, are biting very freely
in the Sacramento just now and making it
so interesting for anglers that they stand
out on the sandbars or fish from boats. no
matter how cold the weather may be. Two
enterprisiDg fishermen have stretched
lines across the river, in the vicinity of l.
and NJ streets, and as each line has several
dozen hooks attached to it, the fishermen
are kept busy. 1t seems to take longer to
bait them than to take the fish of, how
ever.
Despite all that has been said to the cor
trary, the officers have as yet been unable
to find and arrest the parties wanted for the
commission of the Oroville and Quincy
stage robbery. The ownership of the gold
which John Norton bought from a man
who is supposed to have been one of the
robbers has not vet been decided in Court,
but it may be led up to during the hearing
in the Police Court tomorrow of the case
of Norton, who is charged with receiving
stolen goods.
District Attorney Bruner, under the au-
thority given by the Board of Supervisors
on Wednesday, yesterday appointed Jay R.
Brown as Deputy District Attorney. De-
spite the assertion that the business of the
District Attorneys Office is so great that, to
have 1t properly attended to, and every
thing written up as it should be, there is
work enough to keep two men busy, there
appears to be considerable adverse criti-
cism of the action of the Supervisors in
providing for the appointment and pay
ment of deputy. In fact, it is asserted
that they had no authority in law to do so,
Sacramento being county of the third
class, under the provisions of the county
government bill.